 ... in comparison. Then would he add certain praises, by telling what a peerless beast the horse was, the only serviceable courtier, without flattery, the beast of most beauty, faithfulness, courage, and such more, that if I had not been a piece of a...  The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare - Page 230by Jean Jules Jusserand - 1890 - 33 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 pages
...fla:tery, the beait of moft beauty, faithtulneis, courage, and liich more, that if 1 had not been a piecs of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have perluaded me to have wifhed myfelf a horfe. But thus piuch, at leaft, with his no few words, he drove... | |
 | Sir Philip Sidney - 1787 - 158 pages
...flattery, the beaft of moft beauty, faithfulnefs, courage ; and fuch more, that if I had not been a piece of a Logician before I came to him, I think he would have perfuaded me to have wifhed myfelf a horfe. But thus much, at leaft, with his no few words, he drove... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1809 - 458 pages
...beauty, his faithfulness, and his courage, that his pupil facetiously says : " if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse." In the second book of the Arcadia, he has finely described... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...beauty, bis faithfulness, and his courage, that his pupil facetiously says : " if 1 had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would bare persuaded me to have wished myself a horse." In the second book of the Arcadia, he has finely... | |
 | 1810 - 438 pages
...beauty, his faithfulness and his courage, that his pupil facetiously says, ' if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse/ In the second book of the Arcadia, he has finely described... | |
 | 1814 - 774 pages
...the beast of the most beauty, faithfulness, courage, and such more, that if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me lo wish myself a horse. But this much, with his no few words he drove into me, — that... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 482 pages
...with such fertileness and spirit on the various merits 0f the animal, " that if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myielf a horse." * Away with the Caesarian bread ! At these immortal mangers... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1822 - 312 pages
...contemplated on the peerless object of his fame, that Sir Philip Sidney tells us, " had I not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse. But thus much," adds that fine genius, " he drove into... | |
 | 1829 - 460 pages
...had an Equerry who spoke so eloquently of horses as made Sir Philip say, ' If I had not been a piece of a logician .before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse.' Christian Argument.— St. Louis earnestly counselled... | |
 | 1831 - 368 pages
...flattery, the beast of most beauty, faithfulness, courage, and such more, that if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse. But thus much, at least, with his no few words, he drove... | |
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